This whole sinfonietta feels to me like a trip in a fantastic different space and yet somehow familiar.. especially the 2nd movement .There is something nostalgic about it and exciting too.Amazing music! Thank you for sharing.
Love this post-tonal language of Weinberg: this lyrical work has some dissonance but it is completely accessible. While movement I is energetic, movement II features a beautiful, plaintive melody. Movement III features playful lines on wind instruments. The last movement is energetic and highlights wind instruments and strings.
The best way to get to understand music is to listen to a lot of it!--- I suggest listening to Beethoven's sonatas, they're easy to understand and really quite epic. Try his Pathetique Sonata, the 3rd movement of Tempest, and the Waldstein Sonata.You'll find other videos along the way. For full orchestras (not piano solo), listen to Rachmaninov's Concerto No.2-- you can understand that one, try his Concerto No.3 (a bit more difficult to understand)! Hope this helps
@@erinmalloy9297 It was very different for me. I started with film music (The Empire Strikes Back) when I was a teenager. Then I discovered Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony. And since then it's symphonic music of the 19th through 21st centuries where I feel home at most. And as much as I appreciate Beethoven's symphonies and his sonatas (I listened to them many times over), my heart really lies in more romantic or more modern symphonic music. Having said all that my advise for anyone who loves something like Weinberg's Sinfonietta would not be to go back more than a 100 years and listen to piano music, but to first stick with Weinberg and his contemporaries like Dmitri Shostakovich, Boris Tishchenko, Boris (not Peter) Tchaikovsky and so on. Then expand to other countries like Finland (Jean Sibelius, Leevi Madetoja) or Sweden (Pettersson) or Denmark (Carl Nielsen, Rued Langgaard, Vagn Holmboe) - all of whom have written symphonies. As for the question of understanding: listen actively - and read about it. There are a lot of great books on music that are understandable also for non-musicians. I'd recommend 'The Symphony' by Steinberg and 'The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony' by Horton.
Yet another indication that Jewish music can sound happy in a minor key. This was written at a time when Weinberg (his given name was the Polish Mieczyslaw, not Moishei) was, like other Soviet composers, under the hammer from Stalin's cultural police and he was compelled to write lightweight, folksy stuff. That he succeeded in this little symphony is a tribute to his professionalism. It is somewhat more reminiscent of Khachaturian than Jewish sources.
This whole sinfonietta feels to me like a trip in a fantastic different space and yet somehow familiar.. especially the 2nd movement .There is something nostalgic about it and exciting too.Amazing music! Thank you for sharing.
Love this post-tonal language of Weinberg: this lyrical work has some dissonance but it is completely accessible. While movement I is energetic, movement II features a beautiful, plaintive melody. Movement III features playful lines on wind instruments. The last movement is energetic and highlights wind instruments and strings.
I like the second movement
I don’t understand music but I will! That is a promise
The best way to get to understand music is to listen to a lot of it!--- I suggest listening to Beethoven's sonatas, they're easy to understand and really quite epic. Try his Pathetique Sonata, the 3rd movement of Tempest, and the Waldstein Sonata.You'll find other videos along the way. For full orchestras (not piano solo), listen to Rachmaninov's Concerto No.2-- you can understand that one, try his Concerto No.3 (a bit more difficult to understand)! Hope this helps
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It was very different for me. I started with film music (The Empire Strikes Back) when I was a teenager. Then I discovered Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony. And since then it's symphonic music of the 19th through 21st centuries where I feel home at most.
And as much as I appreciate Beethoven's symphonies and his sonatas (I listened to them many times over), my heart really lies in more romantic or more modern symphonic music.
Having said all that my advise for anyone who loves something like Weinberg's Sinfonietta would not be to go back more than a 100 years and listen to piano music, but to first stick with Weinberg and his contemporaries like Dmitri Shostakovich, Boris Tishchenko, Boris (not Peter) Tchaikovsky and so on.
Then expand to other countries like Finland (Jean Sibelius, Leevi Madetoja) or Sweden (Pettersson) or Denmark (Carl Nielsen, Rued Langgaard, Vagn Holmboe) - all of whom have written symphonies.
As for the question of understanding: listen actively - and read about it. There are a lot of great books on music that are understandable also for non-musicians. I'd recommend 'The Symphony' by Steinberg and 'The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony' by Horton.
Yet another indication that Jewish music can sound happy in a minor key. This was written at a time when Weinberg (his given name was the Polish Mieczyslaw, not Moishei) was, like other Soviet composers, under the hammer from Stalin's cultural police and he was compelled to write lightweight, folksy stuff. That he succeeded in this little symphony is a tribute to his professionalism. It is somewhat more reminiscent of Khachaturian than Jewish sources.
Who's here from Kissin's website?!
Did he recommend Weinberg's Sinfonietta?
Great! 😘
@@treasuresofsound9732 And it was this link specifically, so Kissin himself has watched your video!
This is very poor, banal and bad music.
Sorry that you see (or hear) it that way.
Mind if I asked you to elaborate...?
Jan,you have to be suffering from some kind of terrible "deafness",how sad.
That shows how poor your taste is, to understand the hidden meaning and the deep feelings put into the music
Poor of you....